September updates: some about my days and what I'm doing right now

1. Deployed Codsletter, how are going?

A week ago I deployed and launched Codsletter, a platform that automatizes the newsletter sending for your blog.

I tried to make everything automatic because I don’t want to weigh down my blog with some third-party component or plug-in, and I don’t want a comment system because I don’t want to answer all comments because of work and other personal things.

So I invented Codsletter, I put the form on my blog (you can see it on the home page) and every 7 days, if I wrote 3 articles (at least), the system sends automatically a newsletter to all my subscribers!

Of course, I can edit this configuration and you too can subscribe to your blog on the platform and begin a new newsletter.

Again: I published the application on Reddit and others, and some users gave me some advice to improve the software on the tech side and not. Then, I have some improvements to implement into the software like:

• A new landing page,
• The possibility to edit the SMTP server (because you probably want to send the newsletter from your e-mail server),
• The possibility to edit the template of the newsletter before sending it,
• Today I hosted the software on Heroku, but I want to buy a domain and hosting, so I can manage everything myself as continuous integration (like Heroku do), SSL certificate, and others;

The software is completely open-source because I believe in the free and open-source community, and you can contribute with it (you will find it on GitHub).

Regarding the stats, I have some subscribers to my newsletter, but fewer users on the software itself. I hope will be better :-)

2. Some symbols for my personality

Recently, at work, I followed a particular course where the introduction was quietly intriguing: the teacher asked us to draw some symbols that express our personalities. You can guess that this is not a simple operation, because you cannot express whole into some symbols, you need an entire universe for this, but we tried anyway.

So, there are some symbols I draw and some words about it.

The angry symbol

The first symbol that I draw was the angry symbol. I draw this because, unfortunately, I’m not a patient person in some circumstances, and when I’m starting to fire, I’m firing at all!

I don’t think that this is a good thing, but if you want to see the positive side of this element, I will say that I’m angry only for the important things (banality).

The sun and people

The sun means prevalently that I’m happy with and around people, and this is not simple today, because we are controlled by social media. I especially love talk face-to-face, avoiding a screen.

This is so simple, in the end.

The calendar

The calendar because I’m a routine person, so I’m constantly on things, especially on the work! Tendentially, I’m not statically, but I love to describe myself as a far-sighted person about almost everything.

But, as I said at the top of this article, you cannot describe all aspects of your character using some symbol, or using some words; a person is a jumble of things and thinks that we cannot know!

3. Kubernetes, I think that I will learn this

In the last period, I begin to learn Kubernetes because of a complete course organized by my company. I find it really interesting and I started to make my own server (using, of course, Linux and in particular Ubuntu Microk8s) so I can do some exercises following the documentation.

Yes, I can say that the documentation is perfect, you can learn a lot about K8S using the documentation and following chapters.

Regarding this, I want to make some projects running on Kubernetes and in particular some Drupal projects (but K8S is perfect for everything).

This is the end, I hope you liked it; if yes, you can subscribe to my newsletter (that I made with Codsletter :-P)